Movers from a company, co-owned by a Haledon woman, allegedly waited until they had a customer's possessions all loaded up to tell them the price of their services had gone way up, authorities said.

Lola Larios, 36, and Lior Atiyas, 42, of New York ran the moving company Premier Relocations LLC and were charged Thursday with defrauding customers of over $400,000, according to U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito.

Atiyas and Larios, who also went by the name Michelle Jacobs, ran the company from January 2016 to last month. They would lowball the initial offer to customers and once the movers had their furniture, leaving the customers in a "vulnerable state," the employees would raise the price by as much as two or three times as much as the initial estimate and refuse to deliver their property until they paid, according to Carpenito. The employees did so at the direction of Atiyas and Larios, Carpenito stated.

They each face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on conspiracy to commit wire fraud charges.